Chomsky, in a recent interview, said if students are cheating with these tools, it’s the fault of the teacher for not creating work that is interesting enough to be absorbed by …
There is nothing interesting about pointer dereferencing errors (or their slightly-more-turd-polished equivalent, null references). Absolutely nothing at all.
Most programmers will spend a non-trivial amount of their career fussing over them, however, and any programming education program that doesn't at least touch on how to identify them and what to do is pedagogically void.
